Goldblatt, Cullen,
Beyond collective memory : structural complicity and future freedoms in Senegalese and South African narratives / Cullen Goldblatt. - 1 online resource - Routledge studies in comparative literature .
Introduction -- Sites of Memory -- Making Island Stones Speak -- Recalling Community -- Places of Complicity -- Skew Intimacies -- Complicit Expressions -- Imaginaries of Future Freedom -- Holiday Time in the Twentieth Century -- Archives of Future Freedom -- Coda
Beyond Collective Memory analyzes how two African places became icons of collective memory for certain publics, yet remain marginal to national and continental memory discourses. Thiaroye, a Senegalese location of colonial-era massacre, and District Six, a South African neighborhood destroyed under apartheid, have epitomized a shared "memory" of racist violence and resistant community. Analyzing diverse cultural texts surrounding both places, this book argues that the metaphor of collective memory has obscured the structural character of colonial and apartheid violence, and made it difficult to explore the complicit positions that structures of violence produce. In investigating the elisions of memory discourses, Beyond Collective Memory challenges the dominance of collective memory, and calls attention to the African pasts, metaphors, and imaginaries that exist beyond it.
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African literature (French)--History and criticism.--20th century
South African literature (English)--History and criticism.
Collective memory and literature.
Collective memory and motion pictures.
Violence in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / African
Thiaroye-sur-Mer (Senegal)--In literature.
Thiaroye-sur-Mer (Senegal)--In motion pictures.
District Six (Cape Town, South Africa)--In literature.
District Six (Cape Town, South Africa)--In motion pictures.
PQ3980.5
840.9/35866303
Beyond collective memory : structural complicity and future freedoms in Senegalese and South African narratives / Cullen Goldblatt. - 1 online resource - Routledge studies in comparative literature .
Introduction -- Sites of Memory -- Making Island Stones Speak -- Recalling Community -- Places of Complicity -- Skew Intimacies -- Complicit Expressions -- Imaginaries of Future Freedom -- Holiday Time in the Twentieth Century -- Archives of Future Freedom -- Coda
Beyond Collective Memory analyzes how two African places became icons of collective memory for certain publics, yet remain marginal to national and continental memory discourses. Thiaroye, a Senegalese location of colonial-era massacre, and District Six, a South African neighborhood destroyed under apartheid, have epitomized a shared "memory" of racist violence and resistant community. Analyzing diverse cultural texts surrounding both places, this book argues that the metaphor of collective memory has obscured the structural character of colonial and apartheid violence, and made it difficult to explore the complicit positions that structures of violence produce. In investigating the elisions of memory discourses, Beyond Collective Memory challenges the dominance of collective memory, and calls attention to the African pasts, metaphors, and imaginaries that exist beyond it.
1000195163 9781003095538 1003095534 9781000195163 9781000195187 100019518X 9781000195200 1000195201
African literature (French)--History and criticism.--20th century
South African literature (English)--History and criticism.
Collective memory and literature.
Collective memory and motion pictures.
Violence in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / African
Thiaroye-sur-Mer (Senegal)--In literature.
Thiaroye-sur-Mer (Senegal)--In motion pictures.
District Six (Cape Town, South Africa)--In literature.
District Six (Cape Town, South Africa)--In motion pictures.
PQ3980.5
840.9/35866303